When you look at copyright, it has to do with copying or actually individual use or license to use. If I set up a server and somebody requests a copy of my article by name, I say okay, here is a copy and you don't need to pay or agree to anything. If information is freely displayed on the web, I don't see how anyone could claim it is copyrighted. It is true of broadcast also. If it were not possible to duplicate a TV program then I could see how it could be controlled. It is my opinion that if a person once releases something without a signed contract with the person they release that information to, they have simply given it away in the same way as I might shout a secret in a mall and then go up to each person who might have heard and order them to give me back my secret.

It is very confusing to me because the act of copying has become inherent in everything. I can get a cell from a cow and clone it for a farm. Have I stolen a cow? Apparently I have stolen the idea of a specific cow. If a cow has a calf, by parthenogenesis then the cow is guilty of copyright violation of its own genome if the gene set is owned by a person. If somebody cloned my wife and married them, could I sue them for copyright violation? If they cloned me and then killed me, could I say they murdered me?